London’s Best Hardware Companies – To Work For and Buy From

April 18, 2021

This article showcases our top picks for the best London based Hardware companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Hardware industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.

We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.

We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:

  • Innovation
    • Innovative ideas
    • Innovative route to market
    • Innovative product
  • Growth
    • Exceptional growth
    • Exceptional growth strategy
  • Management
  • Societal impact

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Top London Hardware Companies

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Kano

Kano

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Kano provides a system of kits and coding platform that enables users to develop apps, games, and music. It teaches kids and adults about computers and coding by way of a variety of do-it-yourself hardware building kits.

Also, its computing platform enables someone to build real devices, learn how they work, code them step by step, and share their creations with the world. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in London, England..

Simple. www.and.digital.

Elvie

Elvie

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Elvie is a health and lifestyle brand developing smarter technology for women. We are committed to building extraordinary products that improve the health and lives of women everywhere and at all stages of life.

Our first product, Elvie Trainer, is an award-winning app-connected Kegel trainer that helps women strengthen the pelvic floor via fun, five-minute workouts. Launched in October 2015 to great acclaim, we took the wellness industry by storm! Our street cred includes more than 12 awards for innovation and design, including the prestigious CES Innovation Award, IDA Design Award and Red Dot Award.

As a business, Elvie has been recognized as one of Wired’s ‘hottest start-ups’, named as one of the 15 start-ups “To Watch” by The Sunday Times and both products have been featured in the Oscar Nominee Gift Bags. We recently launched our second innovation: Elvie Pump, the world’s first silent wearable breast pump, which is making it possible for new mothers to pump anytime, anywhere.

Elvie Pump received international praise following its unveiling on the catwalk at London Fashion Week and at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. In April 2019, Elvie announced a $42 million Series B led by IPGL and supported by Octopus Ventures and Impact Ventures.

This represented the largest ever fundraise in femtech. This new round of financing will accelerate Elvie’s research and development efforts, as well as help grow brand awareness and distribution for Elvie Pump and Elvie Trainer across the Americas, Europe and Asia.

Headquartered in London, UK with offices also in New York City, the company has received numerous awards and raised more than $52m in investment.. .

Softline

Softline

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Softline Group provides IT solutions and services in Russia, the CIS, Latin America, India, and Southeast Asia. Softline offers comprehensive technology solutions, software licensing, the supply of hardware, and related IT-services.

Private cloud Softline platform provides customers with access to the public, private, and hybrid cloud solutions. In 2014, Softline achieved a turnover of more than $ 900 million, and over the past 11 years, compound annual sales growth rates (CAGR) was 37.2%.

For more than 20 years of successful activity in the IT-market, they have managed to accumulate a unique experience in large and growing markets. Softline is a partner of more than 3,000 suppliers of software and hardware.

Softline clients – 60 000 private and public organizations of all sizes, from large corporate customers and small to medium businesses.. flatfair’s technology makes life easier for agents too, from registration and change of sharer right through to check-out – they’ll also get a commission for bringing on new tenants and landlords too..

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ROLI

ROLI

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ROLI is creating the future of musical expression. It started with the Seaboard, an award-winning digital keyboard that you can play with all the depth and nuance of an acoustic instrument.

ROLI now makes a huge range of music-making tools — from pocket-sized drum pads like the Lightpad Block to all-in-one systems like the Songmaker Kit. Its devices are incredibly expressive, and they’re also accessible.

So whether creators are learning musical skills or honing their technique, they can make music in new ways with ROLI. ROLI investors include Sony Innovation Fund, Foundry Group, Firstmark Capital, Balderton Capital, Founders Forum, and Pharrell Williams (ROLI’s Chief Creative Officer).

Music creation hardware includes: Seaboard RISE 25, Seaboard RISE 49, Seaboard Block, Lightpad Block, Loop Block, Live Block, and Touch Block. Music creation software includes: Equator, Cypher2, Strobe2, and the NOISE for iOS app.

Platform products include the C++ audio coding framework JUCE.. .

LGN

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LGN is a developer of artificial perception technology used to balance and automatically connect the AI system to the sensor array.

Beryl

Beryl

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Beryl sell their micromobilty operating system to leading transport operators (Eg. London’s Santander Cycles) and operate their own bike, e-bike and e-scooter systems.

Currently in 6 UK cities, with an exclusive contract for New York, they typically operate under exclusive, funded and long-term contracts. Beryl designed and built their micromobility system in-house (on-bike IoT, proprietary backend operating technology stack, on-street operations etc) which allows them to tailor their offering to a city’s needs and become their fully-integrated, long-term, micromobility partner, as well as partnering with other technology operators to sell their technology and platform in markets they are not yet in.

Beryl was founded in 2012 by Emily Brooke, with the purpose of building a better world by getting more people in cities on bikes. They have a range of consumer cycling products and were first known for their Laserlight safety innovation; a front bike light with a green laser projecting the symbol of a cyclist ahead of the bike.

This was later adopted by all of the 12,000 Santander Cycles in London, after which Beryl went on to provide the London Bike Share Scheme with all on-bike technology and supporting asset tracking software. Beryl are the only micromobility company that is a certified BCorp..

XYZ Reality

XYZ Reality

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XYZ Reality is disrupting the construction industry with a unique Augmented Reality solution that is able to reduce construction costs by up to 20%. For the first time, users are able to walk on site and view their 3D BIM Model, in context, to mm accuracy, using Augmented Reality.

No more disputes, no more out of tolerance errors and real time validation. Visit out website to find out more..

Croud was founded in April 2011 and is headquartered in London, England, UK.. .

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Carv

Carv

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Carv is the first wearable dedicated to skiing that speaks to you as you ski – it’s your digital ski coach. Built in consultation with Olympians, Carv gives you access to the feedback and knowledge that only elite skiers have had access to so far.

With an extremely thin smart insert, Carv measures your motion and pressure distribution and relays feedback through your earphones in real-time. Carv connects wirelessly to your smartphone to give simple, actionable feedback to casual skiers and detailed metrics and analysis for advanced and professional skiers.

Carv lets you train, compete and challenge people with its detailed metrics and helps you improve your skiing with technique analysis.. .

People who understand what it takes to build a business from the ground up. Remind you of anyone? Apply within..

Rahko

Rahko

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Rahko is one of the world’s most advanced teams in quantum machine learning. With the Rahko quantum machine learning platform and a team comprising experts in quantum machine learning, quantum software and quantum hardware engineering, and quantum chemistry, Rahko is constantly breaking ground in quantum machine learning for quantum chemistry.

Rahko has a strong focus on solving real-world, commercially valuable problems, in partnership with several of the world’s largest quantum hardware manufacturers and with some of the world’s largest companies whose future capacity to compete depends on their capabilities in chemical simulation.. .

Ayima’s main offices are based in London and New York, although in 2009 the company has offices in Raleigh, Vancouver and Stockholm.. Victor only works with operators that can offer members the highest standards of safety, security and service.

The innovative, rapidly growing company has developed a strong luxury identity through strategic partnerships with the world’s leading luxury brands, including Belmond, Burgess Yachts and Etihad Airways. Victor’s ‘ultra high net worth individual’ members include everyone from prominent entrepreneurs and CEOs to high-profile celebrities and VIPs.

Victor has achieved three-year average sales growth of 142.93% per annum and was ranked number 15 in the 2015 Sunday Times Hiscox Tech Track 100.. To find out more or discuss your use case with us, visit: www.arria.com..

Cytera CellWorks

Cytera CellWorks

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Cytera’s machines automate the growing of mammalian cells for biotech and pharma

Beeline

Beeline

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Beautifully designed, wonderfully intuitive connected navigation hardware for those who want to enjoy the journey, not just get to the destination. See it in action at http://beeline.co.

Behind the hardware is Beeline’s partner app (for iOS and Android), providing intelligent routing, tracking, social sharing, Strava integration and much more. Connect with friends, share your experiences and find inspiration for new adventures! See here for stockists: https://beeline.co/pages/stockists.

LOGICnow’s passion is helping IT professionals secure and manage their systems and data through actionable insights, rewriting the rules of IT.. .

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Pushme

Pushme

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The way we move around cities is changing rapidly. More and more people are using small, shareable electric vehicles to commute – yet, the way we charge these electric vehicles is cumbersome, expensive and hinders global adoption.

We’ve made it our mission to empower anyone with access to electricity to distribute energy for transport, accelerating our transition to sustainable urban mobility. Our network of battery swap stations enable local merchants to sell energy from within their store, providing instant recharge in multiple locations across the city.

Founded in 2016, we’re a passionate team of engineers, designers and operations experts working on some of the most exciting hardware in the city. We’re backed by SOS Ventures and have graduated HAX, the #1 hardware accelerator in the world..

Order and Collect – ability for customers to order for takeaway, on the fly. 4.

Order at Table – aimed at counter service brands, customers can order and pay for their meal without needing to find a waiter. Winner of the Payment Awards 2015 Mobile Payment System of the Year..

Coinfloor investors include globally recognised venture capital firms and strategic investors. They are proud to have attracted funding from Passion Capital and Taavet Hinrikus.

Mous

Mous

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Mous is a fashion tech brand that designs and manufactures protective accessories. It is a technology startup that offers Musicase, a protective iPhone case that incorporates headphones.

It was designed to prevent tangled and lost earphones as well as protect its users’ phones. Musicase utilizes its users’ Apple Earpods or its own headphones, enabling its users to both unroll and retract them without departing them from the case or losing them.

Mous was founded in 2014 and is based in London, United Kingdom.. .

Pycom

Pycom

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Pycom is an Internet of Things technology company with a vision to give all connected ideas an opportunity to succeed. The company has pioneered an innovative IoT platform which is a unique suite of hardware and software products that connect developers, enterprises and consumers.

This is creating an ecosystem between connectable things and reduces barriers and time to market. Since its launch in 2016, Pycom has attracted more than 29K customers across 87 countries and has attracted more than 500k developers to its global developer community.

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Joos

Joos

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Europe’s only vertically integrated power bank provider, with offices based in London, UK & Hangzhou, China. Through our multi-sector venues, including high footfall areas such as transport hubs, stadia & shopping centres through to dwell spots including bars, cafes, restaurants, we provide a 24/7 on the move charging solution to power the accelerating digitisation of the economy..

Our system is focused on communication and fair, efficient resolution. We help consumers get their voices heard effectively, so businesses get their issues resolved more efficiently.

This way, the consumer is happy with the outcome and the business retains the customer. The Resolver platform offers fully online, end-to-end arbitration and dispute resolution, providing a fast and cost-efficient way to resolve disputes between two third parties.

For businesses, Resolver offers value-added services, providing an enhanced issue-resolution process and real-time consumer feedback insight at every touchpoint using advanced AI programming systems.. .

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Emotech LTD

Emotech LTD

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Founded in London, UK in 2014, Emotech is the world’s first AI company dedicated to exploring proactivity and multimodality in robotics and emotion AI. Their vision is improve the relationships between humans and technology.

They believes as robots populate their lives, they must be built to be empathetic, promoting balanced lifestyles, through innovative, efficient interactions. Their first product, four time CES Innovation Award-winning Olly, is world’s first robot with individual personality.

The company brings together more than 30 top artificial intelligence scientists, engineers, designers, etc., including experts of the well-known team Google DeepMind, outstanding doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows in artificial intelligence at many top universities, e.g. UCL, Imperial College, the School of Computer Science of Carnegie Mellon University.

John Shawe Taylor, head of computer statistics and machine learning at the University of London and one of Europe’s most prestigious professors of computer science, was also invited to become an advisor for the project. Emotech not only has excellent and innovative product design concepts, but also ranks first in the world in core artificial intelligence technology.

As one of a very few teams in the world that has multimodal integration of voice and computer vision technology, Emotech has a number of world’s best technologies and a number of international patents in this area. For example, rivaling Google and Microsoft’s world’s most advanced speech recognition technology, Microsoft’s world-leading voiceprint identification technology surpasses Adobe’s world’s most advanced rotoscoping technology, as well as IBM Waston’s world’s most advanced character analysis algorithms, and has won numerous awards at the world’s top artificial intelligence conference.

Such as Visual Object Tracking Challenge 2016 Best realtime tracker (Published in CVPR2016), IEEE ICRA 2015 Best Computer Vision Paper Award Finalist, IEEE SLT 2014 Best Paper, etc.. .

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Comino

Comino

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With over fifteen years of experience in the world of hardware research and development, Comino is an international start-up specialising in the design and production of liquid-cooled PCs and servers. Our products consume up to 40% less electricity than equivalent air-cooling computers.

Priding ourselves on quality and excellence, Comino offers services to a breadth of burgeoning industries. We currently operate in AI, Forensic, Gaming, and Video Rendering, with intentions to expand our outreach in the coming year..

Brand strategy – We will help to develop product identity and increase its assets. Web development – We create the streamlined, fast & industry-leading user experience websites.

Our digital marketing agency acts as a partner, designed to monitor the most important trends in this area and propose customized, effective solutions.. Chosen AI joined the Founders Factory Accelerator programme in early 2018, is a member of the NVIDIA Deep Learning & AI start-up incubator and in 2019 was selected for the Tech Nation Applied AI growth programme.

It was also identified by Forbes as one of the UK’s most promising AI startups.. .

WICASTR

WICASTR

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WICASTR is a content distribution platform that facilitates the deployment of “Edge Clouds” made to run applications locally and in real time, instead of depending on the faraway cloud for processing needs. WICASTR is a cloud native platform to easily deploy instant, secure and low latency intelligent networks anywhere a wireless hop away to smart devices, connected objects, and sensors.

The platform consists of a powerful Edge Gateway, a high-performance wireless device with with integrated server, WI FI, storage and routing capabilities. Combined to a cloud native intuitive content delivery mechanism and system managing edge-based applications, devices and networks.

We bring content distribution and real-time processing onsite targeting Telco’s, Transport, Retail, IoT, Emerging Markets and more. A simple way to deliver value-added services at the edge..

We seek to be the clear leader in the focused markets that we serve and are committed to growing our business through organic investment, acquisitions and partnerships.. .

Angee Technologies Ltd.

Angee Technologies Ltd.

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Angee Technologies provides One Simple Subscription Service operated as Home IoT Platform with Smart Hardware that delivers protection for homes and privacy to an urban population. The current solutions require long-term contracts, installations, hardware purchase, and user interaction to work correctly and therefore are neglected by a large number of consumers.

Angee replaces all the complexity by simple subscription service with smart hardware included through local operations formed with best-suited partners for each territory in the fast-growing market expected to reach $50B+ in 2020.. Working with Inzura, their customers gain speed to market enabled by their white label Smartphone Apps that engage users with easy to use products and services.

They help Insurers improve customer service, which drives higher customer retention, they also help them to reduce fraud and reduce costs in the claims process. Their product portfolio includes; insurance policy administration mobile apps, insurance telematics (UBI / PAYG) / PHYG / MAYD), user-friendly Smartphone camera photograph analysis, data analytics and back-end server infrastructure.

End users benefit from time saving and safety features built into the apps, as well as delivering new services utilising insurance telematics and driving linked rewards.. .

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LM Technologies

LM Technologies

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LM Technologies designs, develops and manufactures Wireless Technologies, enabling the Internet of Things (IoT). Within our product catalogue we offer solutions that utilise technology from various vendors, Partnered with Qualcomm® and offering wireless devices with their Atheros, Qualcomm, CSR based SoC & Transceiver products, as well as a range of products that use either Broadcom or Realtek IC’s.

Our Modules, Dongles and Adapters, are offered with the latest technical standards within the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth® markets. Our services allow other manufactures a fast low cost route to market.

With a global network of contracted distributors offering comprehensive support, our products are accessible or licensed in a total of 72 countries.. If current wifi networks are compatible, there is no additional hardware required; no messy installations or capital expenditure.

Presence Orb brings business intelligence to all departments and teams within your organisation; from operations to to strategy planning, marketing and beyond! Capture metrics KPI metrics, gain deep insight into how different types of visitors interact with your venues and communicate in real-time to improve customer experience, evaluate initiatives and boost brand loyalty. In addition to the data captured, import third party data such as sales figures and staffing levels, or open source data such as weather and transport to further enrich insight.

Use predictive analytics to forecast customer behaviour with up to 94% accuracy.. Our communication skills are our personal currency! The rise of soft skills and our urgent need for them, is now finally recognised as surpassing our need for technical skills.

We are all Speech Intelligent. In today’s world we need to be agile, adaptive and authentic communicators.

hereO

hereO

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hereO is the first end to end family communication and location sharing service. Founded in 2011, HereO has developed the world’s smallest child watch with built-in GPS and mobile tracking application.

The standalone, cellular-connected children’s watch, was designed from the ground up to be comfortably worn throughout the day by children aged 3 years and up. Together with its family location app, hereO enables for seamless family-wide communication and location-sharing..

Mujo Mechanics

Mujo Mechanics

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Intelligent MSK devices and cloud analytics platform for an objective, data-driven approach to MSK care. Finalist in IET Innovation Awards, British Engineering Excellence Awards and Sports Technology Awards.

Secured £0.4m from Innovate UK’s ‘Digital Health in a Connected Hospital’ funding competition to develop MUJO’s connected healthcare technology and run an independent evaluation with patients and clinicians at The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust.. .

Cupris Health

Cupris Health

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Cupris was founded by Jules Hamann, a Consultant ENT Surgeon, and Paul Thomas, an award-winning designer and entrepreneur, to develop medical devices that exploit smartphone technology to improve healthcare communication. Jules felt that a significant proportion of the patients he saw in clinic could be cared for without coming to see him in person.

We believe that smartphone technology can enable examinations to take place closer to the patient’s home and away from over-crowded hospitals. Cupris Health’s first medical device is an otoscope that can easily be attached to your smartphone and used to capture clinical images and videos of the eardrum.

It comprises a smartphone app and software platform that enables the remote diagnosis and management of patient conditions.. .

Live, pre-game drafts mean that every team in your league is completely unique. You own your players exclusively so you can start trading with your fellow managers or dip into the free agent pool and grab a bargain.

Their scoring model is the best in the business. They use Opta’s most detailed feed to analyse over 2000 match events in every game, to ensure that the best players in each position score points for their performances, not just goals and assists.

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New Motion Labs

New Motion Labs

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New Motion Labs is a driven collection of scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs, dedicated to developing and licensing revolutionary designs for Mechanical Engineering. Nearly every mechanical component will contain a gear, belt or roller-chain drive.

They all have one thing in common. They transfer power on one side of the tooth, and we refer to this as ‘single engagement.’ From the roller chain drives on bikes and e-bikes, to belt drives on conveyors and gear drives in transmissions.

This method of engagement leads to shortcomings for each technology. Our first technology, DUAL ENGAGEMENT™ is a revolutionary method of transferring power on both sides of the sprocket tooth, leading to many advantages over roller-chains, increasing efficiency, strength and lifetime at smaller weights and sizes.

Our technology enables a more efficient, more sustainable world, with smaller, lighter products with greater lifetimes.. And if you appoint us as your online estate agent, we will promote your property for you on the leading UK portal, Rightmove and we’ll be adding more over the next few months.

We are here with all the advice you need and of course to save you many thousands of pounds at the same time.. .

Trackener

Trackener

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Trackener Life is a 24/7 intelligent horse-monitoring technology. Our mission is to help the horse owners detect and prevent horses health issues as early as possible.

The product is composed of a device worn by the horse both at rest, during transport and during exercising, and of an app where the user can have access to real-time alerts and get all the information they need to know about their horse’s health and behaviour.. .

Teslasuit

Teslasuit

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Teslasuit is a team of talented developers and designers, creating innovative products for XR and MedTech.

Smart Audio Technologies

Smart Audio Technologies

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AI noise reduction technology for voice communications

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Jeotex

Jeotex

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Jeotex is a leading developer of wireless web access products and services. We offer a series of wireless web access devices and related web delivery platforms.

We are the inventors and makers of the much talked about Aakash tablet (dubbed the cheapest tablet in the world) being commissioned by the Indian government. We are a UK based company with major operations in Europe, Canada and India.

Our motto is ‘Bridging the Digital Divide’. We are committed to bringing the next billion people into the internet age by offering internet access devices with very affordable, anywhere, anytime internet connectivity..

We make money by powering 100% personalised (and GDPR compliant) advertising to them on behalf of brands. Publishers can host Tailored in relevant editorial to receive a share of this new advertising revenue.

Learn more http://marketing.tailored.to/ Revenue comes from advertising, brand partnerships and product sales. This is shared with our host publishers.

We’ve huge interaction rates when Tailored is added to lifestyle content. A significant percentage of readers are tailoring products to their own needs (thereby sharing their personal buying needs so that we can automatically serve personalised retargeted advertising).

Berg

Berg

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Berg is a cloud-based company that develops and commercializes cloud services for hardware innovators. It helps reduce the cost of invention and increase speed.

Berg offers Little Printer, a web-connected printer that creates mini personalized newspapers. It also provides cables, power adapters, and thermal papers as well as software and hardware platforms for the development of web-connected products.

Its products are available online in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The company’s plug-and-play configuration makes it simpler and cheaper for its customers to prototype and develop new web-connected products of their own.

Berg was founded in 2005 and is based in London, United Kingdom.. .

Cambrian Intelligence

Cambrian Intelligence

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Cambrian Intelligence is building a teleoperation interface to intuitively control robots at a distance with hand and arm movements using gaming technologies such as virtual reality, tracking and haptics. Amazingly, They can also teach robots via teleoperation and therefore increase autonomy with AI.

Their long-term vision is to build AI based robot OS that can control and manipulate objects at a human level of dexterity with any robotic hardware.. .

Through the combination of human and artificial intelligence we will be able to provide companies and agencies with intelligent visual content at highly efficient workflows.. .

GridDuck

GridDuck

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GridDuck transforms homes and businesses into part of the smart grid. GridDuck’s gateway uses a Zigbee wireless network to connect to our plugs and relays.

It monitors consumption data and executes your rule-sets. It connects to the cloud via ethernet, wireless or cellular network.

The company’s wireless plugs, relays and switches monitor real-time consumption patterns. Then can also monitor grid conditions and immediately respond to commands from the GridDuck gateway..

Sooqini is available as an iPhone app, and on the web (and mobile web). Android app is due in October..

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Those

Those

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Those is a design studio founded in 2015 with the intent to pursue the use of technologies in design. It focuses on connecting the physical and the digital worlds.

Its first product was Woodpecker, a scalable digital drawing tool that can be placed and programmed to draw on any surface. With a mission to create new ways to combine the digital with the physical, Those has now created Joto, an antidote to our reliance on pixels and glass screens.

Joto takes the concept behind Woodpecker – transferring digital files, whether it’s pictures, texts or tweets, and into a real life image – and applies it to a product accessible and suitable for home use.. We deliver these interactive visual experiences in standard web pages, on any device – no downloads, no wait times.

So people can really see and experience things before they buy them.. .

Ding

Ding

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At Ding we make beautiful smart home products. Our first is a smart doorbell which allows you to talk with the person at your door.

dsp

dsp

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Award-Winning Microsoft & Oracle Databas

Yoto

Yoto

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The screen-free audio platform. Play music, stories and more with our audio player that children control with physical cards.

Welcome to Audiotime®. .

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Little Riot

Little Riot

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Little Riot mission is to alleviate loneliness and empower people to use technology to communicate without staring at a screen.

Friday Labs

Friday Labs

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Sesame Smart Lock gives access to friends, family and visitors without keys, codes or RFID chips. The only thing you need is your smartphone.

Sesame detects your phone through Bluetooth LE when you come home and automatically unlocks the door for you. The lock also automatically locks the door after you when you leave.

Through your phone or the online dashboard you can share access to your home with others, by letting Sesame unlock the door via their phones as well.. .

AquAffirm

AquAffirm

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AquAffirm is a product development company commercializing technologies to address global biomedical and environmental issues.

RS Components

RS Components

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RS Components is a U.K.-based company that distributes electronic, electrical, and industrial components. It offers electronic power components and connectors, including batteries, connectors, embedded and wireless products, optoelectronics and displays, passive components, PCB prototyping products, power supplies and transformers, and semiconductors.

RS Components also provides electrical, automation, and cables comprising automation and control gears; cables and wires; electrical installations; enclosure, storage, and material handling products; fuses, sockets, and circuit breakers; HVAC, fans, and thermal management products; lighting products; relays; and switches. It offers mechanical products and tools, such as fasteners and fixings; plumbing and hosing products; pneumatics, hydraulics, and power transmission products; stapling, strapping, and site equipment; tools and tool storage products; and workshop consumables.

In addition, it offers information technology, testing, and safety equipment, including audio and visual equipment; books; office supplies; safety, security, and ESD control and clean room products; software; test and measurement equipment; and single-board computers and accessories. It also sells products online.

RS Components Ltd. was formerly known as Radiospares Limited.

The company was founded in 1937 and is based in Corby, United Kingdom. Currently, RS Components Ltd.

operates as a subsidiary of Electrocomponents, PLC.. .

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HearToday

HearToday

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We use technology to help children with hearing loss get better access to education. To reduce the life-long impact of undiagnosed hearing loss in the first years of school, we have built a low cost connected audiometer designed for testing hearing in the classroom environment.

We are now building the cloud based platform to automate collating confidential test results and managing referrals. This platform will facilitate low cost implementation of school screening programmes..

In addition, it offers BigHand Create that allows users’ document authors and support staff to create organization standard polished documents; BigHand Hyperstyles to format documents; BigHand Scrub to remove unwanted metadata from documents; BigHand DocID to stamp documents with helpful identifiers; and BigHand Correspond, a solution designed for healthcare customers helping them to automate and streamline various their clinical correspondence. BigHand was founded by Steve Thompson 1995 and is based in London, England..

Sensio Air

Sensio Air

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The Sensio allergy tracker allows you to monitor thousands of common allergens, including molds, pollens, pet dander, smoke, air pollutants and more. With our simple, intuitive interface, you can track your daily allergy symptoms, monitor potential allergens and receive pollen and air pollution alerts in your local area.

Advice from experts then helps you learn how to combat and eliminate the sources of your allergy and asthma symptoms such as hay fever, runny nose, headache and shortness of breath. Sensio Air monitors air quality around the world and provides you with a local pollen count, forecast and allergen report; it also helps you keep track of your air quality and your respiratory symptoms by using smart algorithms to understand your triggers.

• Check the daily local pollution report and pollen index for your area along with hundreds of major metropolitan areas around the world. • Log your symptoms with the tap of a button to keep track of your health.

• Get daily advice to improve your health and reduce your exposure to allergens and pollutants. • Get local pollen, pollution and air quality alerts and know exactly what to do about them.

Learning more about what may be causing your symptoms will help you identify which remedies such as Allegra, Claritin, Zyrtec, or other options could best alleviate your or your family’s health issues. Available on iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/app/sensio-air/id1252417620?mt=8 And Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sensioair.sensio&hl=en.

Smiths Detection

Smiths Detection

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Smiths Detection designs and makes advanced solutions to detect and identify threats including explosives, chemical agents, biohazards, nuclear, radiation, narcotics, weapons and contraband. A market leader worldwide in providing layered security technologies, Smiths Detection has major plants in three U.S.

states. It partners federal and state government agencies and first responders to strengthen homeland security and safeguard the military.

Major customers include the Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS). It is part of Smiths Group, a global leader in the practical application of advanced technologies.

Smiths Group employs around 23,000 people, including more than 9,000 in the U.S. where it operates around 100 sites in 40 states..

Pandora Cine

Pandora Cine

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Pandora Cine is an innovation company created to improve the workflow of filmmakers. Pandora is the first all-in-one DSLR and mirrorless camera grip made for video.

It turns any photo camera into a video camcorder. Pandora is the solution to DSLR filmmaking.

Improving camera audio quality, increasing the battery duration, and getting stabilized images with only one gear.. On the other side of things, they offer merchants and manufacturers the opportunity to build relationships with customers and increase loyalty in a trading environment where aggregation sites (mentioning no names!!) have reduced most product consideration to a simple price comparison..

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TG0

TG0

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TG0 created a platform technology replacing all electronic sensor complications with one flexible touch-sensitive material, producing 3 dimensional controls that are ergonomic, intuitive and engaging. They use an inexpensive assembly-free manufacturing process.

They are developing a series of computer peripheral products while initiating joint development partnerships with major companies in automotive and gaming markets.. Founded in London, UK in 2004, OpenAsset now has an office in New York to support our North American clients.

Our vision is to inspire people through visualization of the built world, helping our clients win new business.. .

DRIP

DRIP

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Automating unskilled bartending

CoMind

CoMind

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CoMind is creating noninvasive neural technological hardware and software to augment the human brain and connect advanced artificial intelligence to the neocortex to help humans compete with the rapid advancement of AI. The neocortex is the area of the brain which is responsible for brain functions such as sensory perception, cognition, generation of motor commands, spatial reasoning, and language and focused on augmenting this area with artificial intelligence using advanced hardware and cutting-edge software.

Their non-invasive brain-computer interfaces allow communication with the brain. CoMind’s mission is to create the next computing interface, whilst simultaneously improving our understanding of the human brain and neurological disorders..

Eskesso

Eskesso

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Eskesso is smart sous vide cooking appliance and cloud platform. Eskesso project main goal is to develop, using FIWARE technology, a mobile App, a cloud-based online platform and a ““sous vide”” smart Wi-Fi compatible cooking appliance that together will solve the problem related with the fact the modern lifestyle in big cities does not allow people to eat properly.

Eskesso´s mission is to allow any user to easily prepare chef quality meals with little time and effort, and by doing that, become the biggest mobile gourmet cooking community on the Internet. Their major value propositions are the ““sous vide”” appliance price, the Wi-Fi remote control of the cooking process, the recipe creation and sharing online community and the food bags ecommerce platform.

Eskesso will be the first European company launching a smart “sous vide” cooking appliance and the first in the world selling food bags and recipes related with this cooking technique.. Get in touch for more information about short-term rental management in London..

Double Dutch is much more than double the taste sensation, it’s a whole new world of soft drinks.. .

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hiyalife

hiyalife

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Life is full of memories that make you smile and hiyalife is the perfect home for them. Recall stories privately, or with friends & family, to see your lifestory emerge beautifully…

Hiyalife is a cross between a digital scrapbook and an online biography. You can organise your memories in context, bring content from other sources, add stories from others and share privately or publicly to be part of an interwoven network of memories.

Most importantly, you keep full control of your privacy and own your own content.. .

Airlabs

Airlabs

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Airlabs is an exciting young startup with a patented technology that cleans polluted air.

Cambridge Audio

Cambridge Audio

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Cambridge Audio combines many decades of expertise to create hi-fi systems and other home audio products that sound nothing short of sensational.. DAN’s mission is to support member agencies’ businesses and enhance the intelligence, expertise, reach and effectiveness of the members through knowledge sharing and collaboration.

Today, there are more than 2,700 DAN member agencies operating in 90 cities worldwide. All member agencies are amongst the market leaders in their respective countries in terms of creativity, with an impressive portfolio of campaigns and awards..

Listal

Listal

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Listal is a social network that allows its users to list, rate, review, tag, and add images and videos to entertainment products.

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Sportable

Sportable

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Sportable is a sports data company that changes the game for teams and audiences. With Rugby being their primary focus, they are working with a number of teams and manufacturers to create and develop hardware and wearable devices that enable sport specific data to be collated in real time.

Their technology gives the viewer, the team, and the broadcaster unprecedented insight into the decision making of players. Sportable was founded in 2015 and is based in London, England..

CPUSH Ltd

CPUSH Ltd

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CPUSH Ltd develops and sells connected devices for everyday life. It was founded on March 18, 2014, and is based in London, United Kingdom..

Citizens’ collect copies of their digital data, apply their own AI to create personal insights and exchange data and insights with organisations, brands and health researchers for fair reward. Organisations gain on-demand access to a high variety and volume of verified personal data and consumer insights, which are explicitly permissioned and GDPR compliant by default.

Citizenme earns a transaction fee on these exchanges of personal data. Citizenme has built a world leading technology stack recognised by experts such as the UK Royal Society of Science.

All data is held securely on the SmartPhone where personal insight algorithms are also deployed. The team are further researching advanced “privacy tech” including Differential Privacy, MPC and Homomorphic Encryption.

Clients include global Consumer Brands, Banks, Major Retailers, Energy Companies, Advertising Agencies, Travel Companies, Charities, Govt Departments, Data Regulators.. .

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Drift Innovation

Drift Innovation

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Drift Innovation is a consumer electronics company located in London.

Gexo Limited

Gexo Limited

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Gexo specialise in remote IT Support and computer repair. Gexo helps fix technical issues or problems encountered with computers, smart phones, mobile devices, and tablets.

They both fix technical issues with their Gexo Fix product, which has a No Fix No Fee policy. They also provide general computing advice with Gexo Advice.

All of their services are carried remotely over the phone, together with e-mail and software. With Gexo Fix they use specialist software to take control of your computer by logging onto it through your internet connection..

Symmitree

Symmitree

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We provide Unconnected people with free, quality smartphones and a strong digital identity so they can access beneficial services not currently available to them. Aid, payments, remittances, health, legal, banking, critical information and other life changing services can now be delivered directly to populations in need..

By understanding what stores a shopper has visited brands like Unilever can now retarget shoppers who have shown interest in their brand after they leave the store. Worlds first physical retargeting campaign: During a cold november 2014 the Knorr food truck hit the streets of Stockholm feeding cold tummies with warm tomato soup.

By having beacons activated during the week we could target those who had Aftonbladets app preinstalled and who visited the food truck so when the visitors entered the app at another time and place we could switch the regular display ad to a more tailored offer…this time we used coupons.. .

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UtterBerry

UtterBerry

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UtterBerry provides smart sensor systems for infrastructure monitoring.

Kagoo

Kagoo

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Kagoo is a comparison website for electricals. (www.kagoo.com, www.kagoo.co.uk) Buying a new electrical item has never been harder, with hundreds of very similar products on the market, thousands of reviews, technical jargon, retailer deals and vouchers, finding exactly the right product is exhausting.

Kagoo addresses this problem by collecting millions of pieces of product information from across the internet including technical data, prices, reviews, media, news, vouchers and deals. Kagoo normalises and tabulates this data to provide people with a simple way to compare products according to the criteria that matter to them..

GraphicsFuzz

GraphicsFuzz

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GraphicsFuzz offers automated reliability testing of GPU drivers.

BitcoinMinersUK

BitcoinMinersUK

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Based in London, UK we sell Bitcoin Mining Hardware and Bitcoin Cloudmining Contracts

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Musaic

Musaic

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Musaic is a manufacturer/developer of wireless HiFi systems based in the heart of London. Our products are truly cross-platform and play music from Apple™ and Android™ devices, Mac™ and PC™, UPnP/DNLA™ servers, NAS drives and more.

Musaic also plays from most of the latest streaming apps including Spotify, Rhapsody™, Napster™, and SomaFM™ and more. Wirelessly control Musaic from your phone/tablet/PC and play different music in different rooms or the same music in multiple rooms.

Wake up to one of more than 20,000 in-built internet radio stations. Integrate Musaic with compatible lighting, security and other technologies to create a true wireless smart-home without needing any form of professional installation..

The platform uses unique audience insights to help brands create rich campaigns, leading to tangible business results. The Ozone Project was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in London, England, UK..

Anvio VR

Anvio VR

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Anvio VR is a hardware company that manufactures ANVIO VR, designed to provide complete freedom of movement for the player. The company uses Motion Capture Equipment for tracking and control.

This professional-grade system is utilized for movement science and animation, tracking hand, arm, leg, head and torso movements, fully immersing participants into three-dimensional world. ANVIO VR’s platform offers exceptional versatility: it can host almost any kind of content, ranging from games to training simulators and real estate presentations..

Smartcalling are successful alumni of NatWest’s PowerUp programme, Accenture’s Fintech Lab, Nordea’s Nestholma Startup Accelerator programme and Belron’s Drive Accelerator programme (powered by LMarks).. .

Turbado

Turbado

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Turbado gives customers the ease of mind when buying their electronics. Instant warranty exchange, anytime upgrade for the newest model, guaranteed buy back program with pre-determined prices.

Long term rentals, easy trade-in process, and superior customer care are all present at Turbado, a privately-held company based in Bratislava, Slovakia and operating in each EU country.. Time Out Group comprises two highly synergistic business divisions: Time Out Media and Time Out Market.

Time Out Media’s digital and physical media proposition comprises websites, mobile, social media, print and live events. Across these platforms, Time Out distributes its high-quality content – written and curated by local expert journalists – around the best food, drinks, culture, art, music, theatre, travel and entertainment in 327 cities and 58 countries.

The Company is monetising this global reach and its strong traffic from a desirable audience via digital and print advertising as well as e-commerce. Since its launch 50 years ago, Time Out has become a global brand that advertisers and consumers love and trust.

Time Out Market is a food and cultural market leveraging the Time Out brand to bring the best of the city under one roof: its best chefs, drinks and cultural experiences – based on the editorial curation Time Out has always been known for. The first Time Out Market opened in Lisbon in 2014 and is now Portugal’s most popular attraction with 3.9 million visitors in 2018.

Following this success, five new Time Out Markets have opened in North America in 2019 in Miami and New York (May), Boston (June) and in Montréal and Chicago (November). A further pipeline of other global locations includes Dubai (2020), London (2021) and Prague thereafter.

Planet Computers

Planet Computers

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At Planet Computers, we are passionate about typing, writing, being productive and creating on the go. Since the introduction of touchscreen mobile phones and tablets, we felt that it is very difficult to type on these types of devices.

On-screen keyboards often take up more than half the readable screen. We want to get back to typing on a fully tactile keyboard whilst being able to view the entire screen.

All this on a device no larger than most modern mobile phones. We decided to re-invent the palm-sized keyboard mobile device that will benefit many, who we think are missing using the keyboard on the move.

From bloggers and creatives that need to constantly write, to professionals who need to read and write e-mail, create and edit documents and spreadsheets.. .

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Oregan Networks

Oregan Networks

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Oregan Networks is a leading provider of software solutions for digital home entertainment devices.

Hawk Safety

Hawk Safety

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Hawk is an all in one food safety monitoring system that’s designed to look after all of your food safety needs. Hawk Safety works within Internet of Things (IoT) and is a comprehensive cloud and App based monitoring and analytics platform with an integrated set of hardware sensors and gateways.

These are for use within a variety of sectors that have both a restrictive regulatory environment and an increasing need to use available sensor data as a business decision support tool.. .

In the future they will add artificial intelligence and machine learning features to the platform that help their customers to get the best possible carrier deals for their eSIM cards. 1oT is part of, and co-founded by Mobi Solutions group (http://mobisolutions.com) which among other things was a key developer of the original Skype mobile application, as well as launching the carrier billing service Fortumo, (https://fortumo.com, backed by Intel Capital), and Messente (https://messente.com), the critical business SMS platform service global clients..

Spectral Core Ltd

Spectral Core Ltd

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Spectral Core Ltd is a software vendor specializing in database solutions since 2001. Headquarters are in London, United Kingdom.

Their customers are from over 90 countries, all over the world. Thousands of individuals and companies use their applications designed to compare and synchronize tables, solve database-related issues and migrate their data.

Probably most significant product is Full Convert, an database conversion and synchronization tool with various databases suported: Microsoft Access, dBase, FoxPro, Microsoft Excel, Firebird, Interbase, MySQL, Oracle, Paradox, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, SQL Server Azure, SQL Server Compact (SQLCE), SQLite, Delimited text files (CSV), XML and many more via ODBC. Some of notable clients are National Geographic, Monster, Boeing, Xilinx, Kronos, Philips, Emulex, Renault, Siemens, Agfa, CBS, MITRE, Novell, Insight, Yale University, Duke University, Virginia Tech, Sony, Intel, Disney, CSC, Oracle, Merck, Qantas, Hewitt, Peen State, Fortune 500 companies..

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Lovefone

Lovefone

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Lovefone provide a quality repair service for iPhone’s, iPad’s and the iPod Touch. With two workshops in central London, a drop-in service is provided along with a mail service for the rest of the UK.

Starting out as a company who specialised in iPhone Screen Repairs, this has since expanded to include a manner of different repairs that cover most common faults. Service options include: – Book an appointment at one of the London workshops.

– Send your device by mail for a repair and return service (anywhere in UK). – Courier pick-up and return within the London area..

Sküma

Sküma

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Sküma is a consumer electronics manufacturer based in London UK. The Sküma device allows tap or impure water to be purified and then mineralised with a specific quantity of calcium, magnesium etc.

to replicate famous mineral water brands like Evian or Volvic.. With plans to open their Sydney office next year you can see that they are getting things right when it comes to customer experience (CX).

And if they nail it for you, it means you nail it with your customers. Everyone’s happy.

And if they make a mistake, what they do is empirical; they can identify what went wrong and fix it.. .

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Corkbin

Corkbin

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Corkbin is an iOS and Android-based mobile application that helps its users remember the wines they love with all their notes. Corkbin allows its users to share their wine discoveries with their friends and find where to buy their favorite wines.

It provides a wide range of wines such as Chateau, Sherry, Avante 2011, and $10. The company allows its users to upload photos with their wine bottles, add notes to it, and share the experiences with their friends and community.

Corkbin was founded by Catherine Liao in 2009.. C6 was launched in November 2004 at the UK ACPO Conference (Association of Chief Police Officers) after several years of development.

Paul Renner is also the co-author of “Preventing Financial Instrument Fraud – The Money Launder’s Tool”, originally published by the ICC (International Chamber of Commerce) Commercial Crime Services(CCS), now called the ICC Financial Investigation Bureau. The fraud models described within the publication has been referenced by the UK City of London Police and prosecution services, to support their case and secure convictions against fraudsters..

Time Out Market is a food and cultural market leveraging the Time Out brand to bring the best of the city under one roof: its best chefs, drinks and cultural experiences – based on the editorial curation Time Out has always been known for. The first Time Out Market opened in Lisbon in 2014 and is now Portugal’s most popular attraction with 3.9 million visitors in 2018.

Following this success, five new Time Out Markets have opened in North America in 2019 in Miami and New York (May), Boston (June) and in Montréal and Chicago (November). A further pipeline of other global locations includes Dubai (2020), London (2021) and Prague thereafter.

Get It Made

Get It Made

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Get It Made is your manufacturing partner for prototyping and bespoke production. Our mission is to make manufacturing easy.

With access to a vast range of state-of-the-art manufacturing equipment and highly skilled teams, our engineering capabilities are unique. Each project is meticulously planned and managed from start to finish to achieve efficiency, quality and value.

We can sometimes focus on our foundation of CNC Machining, but we do also offer a large range of industrial manufacturing processes that can all be managed and brought together under a single project. We often extrude aluminium profiles, CNC machine, weld and then anodise.

We can rotationally mould a large part and then assemble with fixing and fittings. We can combine many processes to be able to get your project complete with ease, saving time and money..

You may write to us at: BestStartup.co.uk/Fupping Ltd, 349 Royal College Street, London, England, NW1 9QS.

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